Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for being late as with all the votes that took place earlier, I assumed this was going ahead earlier and, consequently, I apologise. I thank Mr. O'Brien for his attendance. I heard the first part of his address on the monitor in my room but missed the piece while I was coming from there to here. I appreciate his attendance. I also appreciate in particular the table he provided on road deaths because it demonstrates the huge progress that has been made. I had quite forgotten that in 1972, when I still was a teenager, so many people were killed on the roads. At that stage, I was a regular cyclist so perhaps I was lucky to get through.

I wish to ask Mr. O'Brien a question about the speed camera issue because it has been suggested that he would be the best person to ask. Can he tell the committee something about his views on the GoSafe consortium and how it is operating? For example, I do not like the fact that it now is controlled by an entity based on the Isle of Man. If I understood him correctly, Mr. O'Brien appeared to indicate it was not that appropriate that some of this work should be hived off to a non-Government body.